Sammie Griffin
Private First Class
C CO, 2ND BN, 503RD INFANTRY, 173RD ABN BDE, USARV
Army of the United States
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
April 04, 1947 to December 18, 1965
SAMMIE GRIFFIN is on the Wall at Panel 4E, Line 23

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 Sammie Griffin
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3 Jul 2004

Looking for any of Sam's family.

From his medic and brother in arms,
Jeff ("Doc-O") Armitage
docojeff@sbcglobel.net


 

Notes from The Virtual Wall

C Company, 2/503rd Infantry, lost five men on 18 Dec 1965:
  • 1LT Joseph P. Yatsko, Levittown, PA
  • SGT Robert A. Gray, Avilla, IN
  • PFC Sammie Griffin, Philadelphia, PA
  • PFC Daniel J. Guilmet, Seattle, WA
  • PFC Richard W. Peterson, West Covina, CA

The photo and following article are taken from The Philadelphia Daily News, special supplement entitled 'SIX HUNDRED AND THIRTY,' October 26, 1987.

Griffin, who enlisted in the Army in September 1964, confided in his last letter home from Vietnam that "I'm trying very hard to stay alive and get back home". The private first class, a rifleman assigned to Company C of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade, 101st Airborne Division, died one week before Christmas Day 1965. He was 18 years old. Survivors included his father, two brothers and two sisters.

Courtesy of a native Philadelphian and Marine,
Jim McIlhenney
christianamacks@comcast.net


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